Miles Franklin Literary Awards

The winner of the 2008 Miles Franklin Literary Award is Steven Caroll for 'The Time We Have Taken'. The short list was as follows:

The Fern Tattoo	David Brooks	University of Queensland Press
The Time We Have Taken	Steven Carroll	Fourth Estate (HarperCollins Publishers)
Love Without Hope	Rodney Hall	Picador (Pan Macmillan Australia)
Sorry	Gail Jones	Vintage (Random House Australia)
Landscape of Farewell	Alex Miller	Allen & Unwin

If you want some quality Australian literature to read over the holidays, mayybe read the winner or one of his competitors.